Industry Consortium Forms to Drive New Standard for Optical Laser Sources
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 2, 2020 — The CW-WDM MSA (Continuous-Wave Wavelength Division Multiplexing Multi-Source Agreement) Group announced its formation as an industry consortium dedicated to defining and promoting specifications for multiwavelength advanced integrated optics. In contrast to other optical communication standards groups, the CW-WDM MSA is solely focused on specifying the laser source, rather than the full communications link, and is not targeted at any specific applications. This approach, the group said,